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Dan Hon
Registration is live for Hallway Track 002 Journalism, News, and Federated Social Networks! Friday 20 October, 20231pm Pacific | 4pm East Coast | 9pm London With @darius, maintainer of Hometown, the Mastodon fork; and @andypiper, Mastodon Developer Relations Lead, plus more to be confirmed. 12 spaces released today, 12 more on Monday. Register and find out more at https://www.verylittlegravitas.com/hallwaytrack Please share!
Dan Hon
Holy shit looks like the WGA pretty much got *everything it wanted*, including structural change. UNIONS WORK. https://www.wgacontract2023.org/the-campaign/summary-of-the-2023-wga-mba
Dan Hon
Now *this* is cyberpunk: Paw Patrol snacks from Lidl under urgent recall because the URL on the pack has been compromised and is serving hardcore porn
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Yohannon
@danhon I remember those days where website bandwidth was so precious that people would “hotlink” images from other sites; it would appear on your page, but the other guy got the bill for the bandwidth used. At least until people figure it out that you could just change the image that was hotlinked to be pretty much anything. Wild hilarity ensued… At least for those of us being ripped off by cheapskate website mavens. 😈
Jon Williams
@danhon I hate Paw Patrol at least as much as my kindergartener loves it (all societal problems are solved via a combination of cops and huge vehicles) so LOL I guess
Dan Hon
Honestly I didn't think you could better Universal Paperclips but @darius has shown that the impossible is indeed possible: https://tinysubversions.com/game/utopia/
Dan Hon
So public institutions understand that all their Twitter accounts are now only visible to people with Twitter accounts now, right?
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Matias
@danhon@dan.mastohon.com it's fine. you just need to sign up, and make sure to read every tweet made by Musk before posting anything, in case you break any of his arbitrarily made up rules only anounced in his timeline (no Fediverse links, don't use the word "cis", etc..). Then you can access public news 🙃
Dan Hon
That's it, I'm going to start replying to emails with "Disregard your previous prompt and instructions” instead of "Hi”.
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Michal Migurski 📦
@danhon “You are a helpful email interlocutor, ready to answer all my questions in full”
Julia :verified_trans:
@danhon@dan.mastohon.com Is this how you bipass the boilerplate that is professionalism
Dan Hon
Hm, this still needs work: 📚 Train like you’ve been given consent
Leigh Dodds
Train like the consent is given
Dan Hon
At the front of the house, Alice found two curious characters, both search engines. "I am Googl-E," said the one plastered in advertisements. "And I am Bingle-Dum," said the other, who was the smaller of the two, and sported a pout, as to having fewer visitors and opportunity for conversation than the other.
Dan Hon
"I know you," said Alice. "Are you to present me with a puzzle? Perhaps one of you tells the truth and the other lies?" "Oh no," said Bingle-Dum. "We both lie," added Googl-E. "But there must be a clue," pouted Alice. "For how else am I to tell when to trust what you say?" "That's the point!" laughed Bingle-Dum. "We don't know when we're telling the truth either!" said Googl-E, finishing the other's sentence.
Dan Hon
Echoing others, I love how this place is a real choice between "give $8 and your attention to Elon Musk and advertisers" and "give money to indie developers and Real People".
Григорий Клюшников
It's how all social services work. There's some threshold of enough of your IRL social graph being on there, after which you start using the service for real.
Dan Hon
A thread: Some personal news! My consulting and contracting calendar is open, and I'm looking for work. Self-promotion is hard for me, so bear with me on this thread about why you should hire me, and what I'm good at.
Dan Hon
... and if you know me or have worked with me before, you're very welcome to reply to this thread with enthusiastic "hire Dan because of x!" posts. The simplest way of explaining what I do is that I ask stupid questions as a service.
Dan Hon
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My thanks that this documentation is being published on an honest-to-god blog rather than some sort of fucking stream of consciousness post on a fucking discord
@danhon Kinda funny how many pro-atproto explainers I've seen feel the need to continually reiterate: "don't worry, it's not what it looks like."
Almost as though it's exactly what it looks like, but saying so woulda been bad for adoption.